Arguing that current policies don’t work, two more public officials are calling for serious changes in marijuana laws and their enforcement. State rep La Shawn K. Ford and Alderman Walter Burnett Jr. told me in separate conversations that they not only favor decriminalizing marijuana possession to keep more pot smokers out of jail—as Cook County […]
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More reasons to legalize it
I just talked to a friend I hadn’t heard from in a while. He sounded chipper as usual, even when he almost casually mentioned that the cancer he’d fought off with surgery and chemo more than a year ago was back. He’s undergoing radiation treatment this time. He mentioned that he was trying to find […]
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Jody Weis speaks out on the War on Drugs
Unusually straight talk from Jody Weis on drugs and the CPD.